While watching SyFy...

We are marathoning all of our favorite episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation since they are on Instant Play on Netflix. I blame this for my inspiration of keeping myself busy while I watch. I decided to do something I haven't done in a while...actually draw. So I took out a permanent marker, some conte pencils and a couple of science-y books to see if there was any inspiration.
I ended up with a few dull pencils and some fun/colorful illustrations. I kind of want to do more now. . .
Can you tell from these close-ups what they are?

Okay, here's the full pictures and what they are:

 

A Jelly Fish of some sort.

 

 

 A Smooth Periwinkle.

 

A Corpse Flower

 

A Purple-Sun Starfish.

Fun, no? Thank you Life Nature Library! I want to do a bunch of 'em just for fun. It's a good way to spend time while the Star Trek is going. Just so I can get some artistic nerdiness going on to join my other nerdiness. :o)

a productive lunch time....?

Today I was in a park by my office on my lunch break and decided to try and take multiple pictures of a single subject as a study.
My conclusion:  It's a leaf.
   :o)

Photos on My Lunch Hour and Break!

Okay, I got carried away, so some of these are not that great. I was playing with a camera effect that I have on my PHONE. That's right. I said on my phone. Seriously.
So what if my phone has an identity crisis and no flash? It worked for me. So since I was walking around downtown at the same time, I tried experimenting by not taking a lot of time on each photo and sometimes didn't really stop walking (which explains some of the poor cropping and what-not) to take the picture.

And here I am on my walk, from a couple of different views and lighting:

And what better to be next than my favorite flower? A great big beautiful bloom that I found too.

And then I got all fascinated in the textures that I walked by and started snapping those:

And then it was time for some coffee with my dad.

(oops, sideways pops.)
And then it was ALL about the trees and the parks I walked through. I really got caught up in the tree branches and their texture etc. when using this filter.
SO much fun! Sorry for the stretched photos. If you click them you get the normal size photo in your browser.

 

And then lastly there was my goofing off...my new favorite shoes and a mistake I made that I thought looked fun.